Yolanda Yang

Yolanda He Yang is an installation and performance artist.

Her work employs the hidden power of subtlety and ephemerality that often tie to the labor, materiality and storytelling. Her site-responsive practice has evolved through residencies that attune to the distinct material and social conditions of each place — from prehistoric sites in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt, to a demolition and construction recycling site at RAIR (PA), to cornfields at Villkulla Residency (NE), and an upcoming residency in nature at the Marble House Project (VT). Through these contexts, her research process engages observation, embodied response, and collaboration with local environments to uncover the layered temporalities and ecologies embedded within each site.

Yolanda was born and raised in northern China. Her playgrounds were rust-stained iron-mining compounds, weathered Soviet-style slides, half-abandoned factory yards, and wind-swept open fields beside railway lines, landscapes shaped by the acceleration of globalization and displacement at the turn of the millennium.